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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

San Diego panel famous. Sorry I'm not in the room/building, but proud nonetheless. (If you squint at the first image, you can see my name at bottom left on the cover slide.) bleedingcool.com/comics/jim-l...

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Okay, comicsSky, let's give this a shot - family trip to Paris for a week and London for a few days at the end of July. Comics shop recommendations?

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GhostBHR @benhrome.com · 23/06/2026

This one killed me today.

An image of a Nancy Drew-style book cover, using the Washington Monument and Reflecting Pool as the main subject, with Nancy kneeling on the left, flashlight pointing down into the water. Across the top is the title "The Case of the Missing Paint."

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Happy early birthday to @mynameisgaron.bsky.social ! Hope you get the present we all check the news for every day…

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hell Gate is fantastic. Take advantage of this deal and you’ll be better for the experience.

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

FCBD trip down memory lane: a fan had me sign this book (connected to the short-lived TV series PEOPLE OF EARTH), the first time in ages I've seen a copy of the custom project I did with the incredible @tonyshasteen.bsky.social. Editor @alexantone.bsky.social put this one together back in the day.

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Is this the first time Rudy Giuliani has been referred to as “stable”?

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

In case it got lost in the sea of despair (and that's a pretty deep sea) - come say hi on Saturday at Royal Collectibles in Queens! And you can find me afterwards at nearby Eddie's Sweet Shop.

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Like free stuff? Sure you do. Like seeing me? I hope so. On Saturday, May 2 come to Royal Collectibles in Queens for the intersection of those powerful impulses. I’ll be signing my Free Comic Book Day LEGO Batman comic.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

So glad this has been announced. I get to play with a lot of fabulous toys when I get to do custom projects for DC, but this one was more fun than most. And you cannot beat the price. www.comicsbeat.com/lego-batman-...

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New LEGO BATMAN game lands FCBD issue

The free comic by Ivan Cohen and Paul Lee, out May 2, will arrive mere weeks before the game's release on May 22.

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Repost: Just announced: L'Alliance New York's Comic Arts Fest (April 24-26). A Sunday screening of the documentary Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle, includes a talkback session with me and the doc's driving forces: Michael Kantor and Laurence Maslon. Join us! lallianceny.org/event/comic-...

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Comic Arts Fest 2026 - L'Alliance New York

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 15/01/2026

I'm dying this is the funniest thing I've seen THE LOCAL NEWS do in years.

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

A great show. Can’t wait to see what Ryan brings to the party.

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Today marks 5 years since Kid Quick's 2020 debut. If you haven't met them in DC'S VERY MERRY MULTIVERSE, TEEN JUSTICE, or DC PRIDE, you should. Thx to @mikhalmc.bsky.social, Eleonora Carlini, @weredawgz.blacksky.app, @marcofaillacomics.bsky.social and the other excellent collaborators on Team Quick.

Kid Quick's first appearance in DC'S VERY MERRY MULTIVERSE #1 (2020)

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 01/12/2025

BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers! gothamist.com/news/starbuc...

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Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses

The city says about 15,000 employees will get paid $50 for each week worked over a three-year period. For some workers, that's thousands of dollars.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. Part 2 of 2:

8. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer runs into a 34-year-old painter at a party and the painter says to the writer that he is just back from Los Angeles and he says with some surprise that he had a really good time there and he asks why does she think that happened and says it's because New York is so boring now that Los Angeles is fun in comparison and that's true and it's one reason but the real reason is that they don't know the people who are dying there.

9. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has dinner every night for 11 nights in a row with the same 32-year-old musician while he waits for his biopsy to come back because luckily for her she is the only one he trusts enough to tell.

10. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer…

…trying to make plans to go out of town flips through her appointment book and hears herself say, ''Well, I have a funeral on Tuesday, lunch with my editor on Wednesday, a memorial service on Thursday, so I guess I could come on Friday, unless, of course, Robert dies.''

11. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when the world's most famous artist dies of complications following surgery at the age of 61 it doesn't seem like he really died at all - it seems like he got off easy.

12. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that at a rather grand dinner held at a venerable New York cultural institution and catered by a company famous for the beauty of its waiters a 39-year-old painter remarks to a 36-year-old writer that the company in question doesn't seem to employ as many really handsome boys as it used to and the writer replies, ''Well, it doesn't always pay to be popular.''

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:

1. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when a 36-year-old writer is asked on a network news show about the Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community particularly in regard to the Well-Known Preponderance of Homosexuals in the Arts she replies that if you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with ''Let's Make a Deal.''

The interviewer's lack of response compels her to conclude that he has no idea what she is talking about and she realizes that soon many of those who do know what she is talking about will be what is generally regarded as dead.

2. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that on New Year's Eve Day…

…a 36-year-old writer takes a 31-year-old photographer to get a chest X-ray and listens to him say with what can only be described as a certain guarded hope, ''Maybe I just have lung cancer.''
3. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has a telephone conversation with a dying 41-year-old book editor whom even the most practiced verbal assassin has called the last of the Southern gentlemen and hears him say in a hoarse whisper, ''I'm sorry but I just hate old people. I look at them and think, 'Why don't you die?' ''

4. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that an aspiring little avant-garde movie director approaches a fairly famous actor in a restaurant and attempts to make social hay out of the fact that they met at Antonio's and will undoubtedly see each other at Charles's and Antonio's and Charles's are not parties and Antonio's and Charles's are not bars and Antonio's and Charles's are not summer houses in chic Tuscan towns - Antonio's and Charles's are funerals.

5. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer is on the telephone with a 38-year-old art director making arrangements to go together the following morning to the funeral of a 27-year-old architect and the art director says to the writer, ''If you get there first sit near the front where we usually sit and save me the seat on the aisle.''

6. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 24-year-old ballet dancer is in the hospital for 10 days following an emergency appendectomy and nobody goes to visit him because everyone is really busy and after all he's not dying or anything.

7. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer takes time out at a memorial service for the world's pre-eminent makeup artist and a man worth any number of interesting new painters to get angry because the makeup artist's best friend and eulogist uses a story that she has for years been hoarding for her book which she can't write anymore anyway unless she writes it as a historical novel because it's about a world that in the last few years has disappeared almost entirely.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/11/2025

Thank you, Ivan! How about: I'm a regular patron and won't be visiting any Starbucks until you finalize a fair union contract and stop union busting. We appreciate the solidarity!

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

@sbworkersunited.org Enthusiastic supporter of the strike wondering if there's a boilerplate text we could send to Sb of the "I'm a regular patron and won't be visiting any Starbucks until you negotiate in good faith with the striking employees" variety. We should be telling them we're boycotting.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 17/11/2025

Good morning from DAY FIVE of our national ULP strike! We're ready to escalate if we don’t see substantial progress toward finalizing contracts that address pay, hours/staffing & the resolution of 100s of ULPs. RT if you're with us ✊🔥 #NoContractNoCoffee

Group photo of union baristas on ULP strike

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

good morning to no one except the woman who dressed up like an AMC movie theater for the halloween parade

woman with an elaborate movie theater costume

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

METRO
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Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Cuomo can say Kościuszko but not Mamdani?

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The only thing that anyone ever needs to know about Bill Ackman is that he once joined a group of avid long distance bikers from NYC to Montauk and back without training or preparation, arrogant in his ability to "lead the pack" and ended up screaming in agony

The others fell in behind, at first struggling to keep up with the alpha leader. But soon enough Ackman faltered—at Mile 32, Ackman recalls—and fell way behind the others. He was clearly “bonking,” as they say in the cycling world, which is what happens when a rider is dehydrated and his energy stores are depleted.

While everyone else rode back to Loeb’s East Hampton mansion, one of Loeb’s friends, David “Tiger” Williams, a respected cyclist and trader, painstakingly guided Ackman, who by then could barely pedal and was letting out primal screams of pain from the cramps in his legs, back to Bridgehampton. “I was in unbelievable pain,” Ackman recalls. As the other riders noted, it was really rather ridiculous for him to have gone out so fast, trying to lead the pack, considering his lack of training. Why not acknowledge your limits and set a pace you could maintain? As one rider notes, “I’ve never had an experience where someone has gone from being so aggressive on a bike to being so hopelessly unable to even turn the pedals…. His mind wrote a check that his body couldn’t cash.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This week! I finally get to write the Legion , so another item drops from my bucket list. Or does it? (The cover copy only tells half the story.) Teen Titans Go #7, from me, Marcelo Di Chiara, Carrie Strachan, Saida Temofonte, and team leader @kristyq01.bsky.social. aiptcomics.com/2025/08/29/d...

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DC Preview: Teen Titans Go! #7

THE FUTURE IS NOW!

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 12/08/2025

This article was a supreme delight: grab a cup of tea, set aside 10 or 15 minutes, and enjoy this story about The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan. aresluna.org/the-hardest-... (via @ferociousj.bsky.social)

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The hardest working font in Manhattan

A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

So does Trump tell Adams "Drop out or the DOJ reopens its case(s) against you?" Then Mamdani gets the gift of being able to say "I'm running against Andrew Cuomo, Donald Trump's choice for Mayor of New York City."

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Representing at the DC booth at SDCC!

Cover art (by Travis Mercer) of the Superman/Krypto project I wrote.

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I'm oddly cheered up in seeing that Ozzy is being remembered mainly for his music, and not for "bit off a bat's head" or "family a reality TV train wreck." Dude contained multitudes, and the focus seems to be on the right thing.

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Ivan C @ivanmcohen.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

A message to editors, artists, and producers I know (and those I *wish* I knew) who are heading for San Diego this week. Though I'm not at the show, I'd appreciate it if you thought of me not as someone who wasn't there, but rather as someone you regret not managing to see during the con. 1/3ish

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 19/07/2025

Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I'm not gonna lie to you I desperately needed this

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